A FACEBOOK page has just been created in support of One Law for All’s rally for Free Expression which is being held in London from 2pm to 4pm at the Old Palace Yard opposite the House of Lords on February 11 – and one of the first people to comment – someone called Simon Richards [...]
THE University College London Union’s Atheist, Secularist & Humanist Society is staging a spirited fight-back over an attempt by the UCLU to censor its Facebook page. The group uses a Jesus & Mo cartoon to publicise its weekly pub social in London, but was told to remove it because it may cause offence to Muslim [...]
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I HAVE been deluged by emails over the last day or so by readers enraged over ITV’s cowardly decision to cut Aussie comedian Tim Minchin out of the Jonathan Ross Show. ITV network’s director of television Peter Fincham apparently got cold feet over a song Minchin penned for the show in which he compared Jesus [...]
RIOT police and guard-dog patrols were called out yesterday in Paris to safeguard one of city’s most prestigious theatres when it became the latest target in a wave of Catholic protests across France against so-called “blasphemous” plays. According to this report, the head of the Théâtre du Rond-Point on the Champs-Elysées complained of death threats [...]
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SAM’s CLUB, one on the biggest retailers in the US, has banned the latest volume of Brendan Smith’s Brick Bible – after complains that it is “vulgar and violent”. Smith, who has been using Lego sets for ten years to reconstruct Bible mythology, tackled sexually suggestive passages from the “Good Book” in the fourth of [...]
I AM outraged! The BBC yesterday carried a report that a Benetton poster depicting Pope Ratzinger kissing a top Egyptian imam had been pulled after complaints from the Vatican. It’s not the pulling of the ad that annoyed me so much as the fact that the lily-livered Beeb chose not to reproduce the poster. Instead [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
